09-25-2019, 09:20 PM
Hello everyone!
Great news for all users of CentOS: CentOS 8 has been finally released into the public as the next stable CentOS version.
What are the changes? A few major things:
- Like in Fedora the new dnf package manager has been adopted (known as yum 4)
- Kernel 4.18 is being used as the base (a more recent kernel as CentOS 7 was using 3.7.x)
- New versions of various software packages are of course available (glibc 2.28, systemd 239 and so on)
- Modules known from Red Hat Enterprise Linux have been adopted into CentOS 8 allowing usage of same software in multiple versions on the same machine (e.g. running Postgresql 9.6 and 10)
- Updates are available til 31st May 2029
Whole release notes are available at https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseN...ntOS8.1905
A new package manager is probably a great thing. From the looks dnf works much like yum though. Commands are like this "dnf install <package_name>" (quite similar to yum install <package_name>).
More about it here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF
A new kernel is certainly a very welcome thing. Since 3.7.X there were so many changes in the kernel. A lot of useful features and massive improvements have been added. Redesigned network stacks and drivers to get much better performance out of the hardware and network. Much much more. Unfortunately this means that CentOS 8 won't be available on OpenVZ 6 and what about OpenVZ 7?... Good question!
New versions of software are obviously always a good thing. You don't want to be stuck with old versions that might be still maintained but don't receive new feature updates that newer versions have, right?
The idea of software acting like modules is a great thing. This can improve work a lot by allowing to run multiple software instances of the same software side by side without having to use VMs or even using Docker. Don't quote me on that though! I'm a Debian user and as such I have never tried or seen the module concept of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
And the cherry is as always the massive support cycle. CentOS always gives a lot of time and dedication in this terms. CentOS 6 is very old by now BUT it is still supported until 30 Nov 2020! As it was released in 2011.. that is around 9 years of support. Other Linux distributions lose support in matter of a year or as soon as a new version arrives. Excluding of course their LTS version that usuall also get longer support but granted not as long as CentOS.
Read more in detail here: https://www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/cen...-download/
Great news for all users of CentOS: CentOS 8 has been finally released into the public as the next stable CentOS version.
What are the changes? A few major things:
- Like in Fedora the new dnf package manager has been adopted (known as yum 4)
- Kernel 4.18 is being used as the base (a more recent kernel as CentOS 7 was using 3.7.x)
- New versions of various software packages are of course available (glibc 2.28, systemd 239 and so on)
- Modules known from Red Hat Enterprise Linux have been adopted into CentOS 8 allowing usage of same software in multiple versions on the same machine (e.g. running Postgresql 9.6 and 10)
- Updates are available til 31st May 2029
Whole release notes are available at https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseN...ntOS8.1905
A new package manager is probably a great thing. From the looks dnf works much like yum though. Commands are like this "dnf install <package_name>" (quite similar to yum install <package_name>).
More about it here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF
A new kernel is certainly a very welcome thing. Since 3.7.X there were so many changes in the kernel. A lot of useful features and massive improvements have been added. Redesigned network stacks and drivers to get much better performance out of the hardware and network. Much much more. Unfortunately this means that CentOS 8 won't be available on OpenVZ 6 and what about OpenVZ 7?... Good question!
New versions of software are obviously always a good thing. You don't want to be stuck with old versions that might be still maintained but don't receive new feature updates that newer versions have, right?
The idea of software acting like modules is a great thing. This can improve work a lot by allowing to run multiple software instances of the same software side by side without having to use VMs or even using Docker. Don't quote me on that though! I'm a Debian user and as such I have never tried or seen the module concept of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
And the cherry is as always the massive support cycle. CentOS always gives a lot of time and dedication in this terms. CentOS 6 is very old by now BUT it is still supported until 30 Nov 2020! As it was released in 2011.. that is around 9 years of support. Other Linux distributions lose support in matter of a year or as soon as a new version arrives. Excluding of course their LTS version that usuall also get longer support but granted not as long as CentOS.
Read more in detail here: https://www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/cen...-download/
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